Newcastle United v Swansea City - Official Build Up / Matchday Thread

What's the problem playing against top teams away from home ?????

 

From BBC Football
I like it

But Newcastle have been obliging opponents to many teams this year, with this loss not only their fifth on the trot but also their ninth defeat in 12 league games.

 

why? when your six fingers on each hand would do

 

You'll struggle with your six fingers still.

 

I want the score at the end of the game not at half time

 

Wish we had Bony

 

What was the reason given for our not attempting to sign him? I think it was that Carr/Pardew didn't think he had the physical attributes to succeed in the Premier League. Yet they thought De Jong did. Says it all.

 

I think both liked him to be fair. The Laudrup factor and more importantly the Mike not spending any money factor were probably the reason.

 

I believe we couldn't compete financially with Swansea. That's right, Swansea ****ing City!

 

Hello from Swansea ****ing City

Laudrup had little to do with the Bony signing. He was only asked if Bony was someone he could work with. The Club has some Dutch connections and it was a done deal way before other clubs came sniffing around. Yet another great signing we're going to lose I think. He bossed you lot yesterday. If Michu hadn't been injured for most of the season we'd have been a lot more comfortable I think, and Europe didn't help.

Regroup for you guys, lose the twat that is Pardew and crack on next season.

 

Maybe. There were reports at the time that we had scouted Bony but dismissed him as being too slow to be effective.

 

Pace isn't his best asset but he's probably the best at holding up the ball I've seen in ages. Defenders can't get him off it. And bloody hell he can jump.

 

I also seem to recall the 'Cove Report' (one of our posters - or at least he was - with good knowledge of the Dutch league) indicated Bony would be a strong player but also maybe a bit 'hit and miss' and might not suit our style. Or something like that? Maybe they read that report.

 

I still am, just a little busy lately.

And yes I said he would not suit their style and in the first half of the season, Bony had a hard time adapting to the Swansea style of playing, but he turned out alright. Altidore is similar to Bony but Bony has more experience and a tad bit more class as a killer striker. So that's the difference between a hit and a miss.

 

Altidore v Bony

Chalk and cheese. Cove.

 

From NUFC.com:

Three games remaining then, and with the nightmarish prospect of what awaits us at the Emirates and Anfield, there's just one more afternoon of purgatory on Barrack Road before we can turn our back on this shower - and begin to worry about which three teams could possibly contrive to finish below us next May....

Gut-wrenching though it is to admit, as Bony ran up to take that penalty, our over-riding feeling was rooting for him to beat Krul -that's how much of a head f*ck watching this rubbish week after week has become.

And just as sadly, we'd willingly see Cardiff come here and win for the second time this season, were another home loss enough to prompt the demise of this discredited buffoon who calls himself the manager. Presumably the squad won't risk a lap of "honour" whatever the score....

Putting aside the "bigger picture" view we subscribe to that whoever fills the manager/coach role is immaterial while the current status quo prevails, something has to change if this end of season hangover isn't to become something far more elongated and debilitating.

Tasked with achieving a top ten finish, home wins by Stoke City and Crystal Palace next weekend would see Pardew take his side to Arsenal the following Monday languishing in eleventh spot.

Despite that though, his post-match burbling suggested he would have been content with a draw - an appalling lack of ambition mirrored in the inspid, pride-free apology of a performance he presided over, that again prompted scores of fans leaving with the score 1-1.

Thanking the fans for their backing (in reality not booing him or his side, but providing a vote of no confidence by their lack of support) was pathetic, while his suggestion that the winning goal could have been prevented had he been on the touchline just invited further derision - what did he intend to do, tackle an opponent?

And maintaining his inconsistent streak, Pardew expressed his delight at returning to the dugout for our next game - having previously spoken about watching from the stands after his ban ended in a bid to modify his behaviour.

Yet more stream of consciousness twaddle and like his formations, tactics and motivational speeches, totally ignored by a dressing room that propelled him to the manager of the year title two years ago.

Now they just want to propel him. And so do we. A change of direction is needed, because everyone is heartily sick of going backwards.

Forget ambition, forget austerity. If we were playing in the Northern League you'd look at the lack of heart, lack of pride and lack of commitment from the eleven players sent out wearing our shirts and do something about it. And short of emptying the dressing room, the bloke who took the plaudits should now suffer the consequences.

Whether the mechanism to achieve such a change exists is open to question though, with the financial burden of paying off the current boss presumably a cost that the football club would have to bear.

And whether there's anyone on the payroll capable of securing a credible candidate to fill the vacancy is another moot point - unless the third coming of JFK awaits as the latest ignominy to befall us....

Pardew mentioned Bobby Robson's side in his pre-match waffle. Today further emphasised to us that like the late Knight, there came a point when he had nothing left to say to his players, no cards left un-played. Maybe his current no.2 could share his recollections of that time...

The failure to appreciate that and act saw Robson remain in post at the end of the 2003/04 campaign, only to then be ejected just four games into the following season - when it became apparent that nothing had changed.

Exactly ten years on, that time has now arrived for the second-longest serving manager in the division to be relieved of his duties after the final whistle at Anfield next month - the same venue that the previous administration should have made Robson's last in 2004.

 

All I cling to is P45dew has already been given the boot in Ashleys mind but that there's simply no point sacking or replacing with trips to arsenal and Liverpool on the horizon. I mean, what would be the point? Welcome to a dead dressing room, good luck keeping the score down at Anfield.

 

This is my thinking. If he is going to go then it could well be that MA sees it as being best at season end. If....

 

The way we're playing, I fear for the scores at Arsenal and Liverpool.

 

Rightly so, so why burden a new manager with slaughter in his first month? We don't need to grab points for safety, and I'd imagine mike does know that we're much more likely to finish below the target of 10 th with Sir Alan in charge. As Ashley is a very basic man beneath the billions, I reckon the target of 10th is yet another mistake where he is held by the financial balls by Pards. Sack me in 9th if you dare, mike.